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Stigma still shadows psychiatric care
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stigma still shadows psychiatric care
February 28, 2006
According to a study from researchers at the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University, Bloomington, Americans exhibit a greater understanding of mental illness and sympathy for it. They also recognize the effectiveness of antidepressants and psychiatric drugs, but a good number of them say they still wouldn't use them. Why the reluctance to take psychiatric drugs but not drugs to control health problems such as diabetes or high blood pressure? "I think they are afraid of what is going to happen to them, which for most people is undo caution," said sociologist Bernice A. Pescosolido, director of the consortium at IU.
To read the entire article, go to:
https://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/depr/531221.html
To learn more about Bernise Pescosolido, go to:
https://www.indiana.edu/~soc/zbio_Pescosolido.shtml
Read about the Indiana University Bloomington Department of Sociology at:
https://www.indiana.edu/~soc/ab_letter.shtml
For more information on the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, visit:
